| Lucia Robinson-Griggs returns to MIT to lead the Engineers' program after a successful run at Vassar. Photo by MIT athletics |
This is where we now track all the changes in Division III head women's basketball coaching positions that occur from the end of 2020-21 season to the start of the next one. We'll provide links to the news stories posted on schools' websites so you can go deeper into the moves that interest you and add a similar tracker for the men's changes soon. The chart also shows which jobs are still open.
If you see anything amiss, please email us at Gordon.Mann@d3sports.com.
| School | Last Coach |
Replaced |
Last position | Notes |
| Alfred State | Gina Boyd | Taylor Button | Assistant at Alfred | Button replaces Boyd who retired after 31 seasons and 425 victories, mostly at the NJCAA and USCAA level. |
| Allegheny | Kate Costanzo | Kelly Muffley | Assistant at Case Western | Muffley is one of two CWRU assistants to land head coaching jobs in the NCAC, along with Mary Kate Tierney at Wooster. |
| Anderson | Lindsay Shade | Jon Gin | Assistant at Covenant | Anderson went 7-7 in the abbreviated season, which was the Ravens' first non-losing season since 2008-09. |
| Anna Maria | Kevin Bigelow | Melissa Paulhus | Position outside of athletics | Paulhus was a standout player at Anna Maria. Her husband also played for the AMCATs and so does their son Drew. |
| Averett | Aby Diop | Desireé Driver | Assistant at N.C. Wesleyan | Driver was a four-year starter at N.C. Wesleyan from 2007-11. |
| Benedictine |
Abbey Hengesbach |
Oliver Wiseman | Assistant at D2 Lindenwood | Wiseman was an assistant at Knox for two seasons. |
| Bowdoin | Adrienne Shibles | Sacha Santimano | Head coach at Eastern Nazarene | Shibles left Division III to become the head coach at Division I Dartmouth. |
| Blackburn | Nick Morgan | Daniel Johnson | Head coach at USCAA Penn State-Shenango | Johnson has had coaching stops in Florida, Maine, Minnesota and Ohio. |
| Bridgewater (Va.) | Sarah Mathews | Jason Asbell | Assistant at Bridgewater | Asbell went 138-198 in 12 seasons as the head coach at Division II Davis & Elkins. |
| Bryn Mawr | Rebecca Tyler | Carla Coleman | Assistant at Bryn Mawr | Coleman won three titles as a player at Division I Penn State. |
| Cazenovia | Chris Comino | Rasul Jackson | Administrator at NVU-Johnson | Jackson played, coached and worked as an Administrator at NVU-Johnson. |
| CCNY | Michael Williams | Tian Tang (Interim) |
Coach at New York High School | Tang has coached with several Division III programs, including as a women's assistant at Western Connecticut. |
| Cedar Crest | Kristin Karat | Kenric Carter | Assistant at Muhlenberg | Cedar Crest went 7-18, 6-12 in 2019-20, which was its best season in a decade. |
| Centenary (La.) | Jason Schmitz | Dana Dunson (Interim) |
Assistant at Centenary | Schmitz left Shreveport to become the new head coach at St. Scholastica in St. Paul, Minn. |
| Crown | Kevin Boozikee | Leah Szabla | Assistant at North Central (Minn.) |
Szabla scored 1,000 points as a player at Division I North Dakota. |
| Dean | Alycia Gervais | Laura Habacker | Athletic Director at North Andover (Mass.) High School | Habacker has a career record of 180-234 over 11 seasons at Elms and five at Clarkson. She was also the AD at Anna Maria for two seasons. |
| Dickinson | Emily Hays | Aby Diop | Head coach at Averett | Diop went 18-9 at Averett in her lone full-season as a head coach there. |
| Earlham | Shauna Watson | Shanna Thompson | Assistant at Illinois College | Thompson previously coached at HCAC rival Bluffton where she earned her MBA. |
| Eastern Nazarene | Sacha Santimano | Didier Dinh | Assistant at Gordon College | Dinh had a four-year stint as a men's basketball assistant at rival Gordon |
| Elmira | Bridget Paluga (Interim) | Thad Phillips | Men's and women's assistant at Elmira | Phillips was the head men's basketball coach at Keuka for 10 seasons. |
| FDU-Florham | Melissa Brooks | Reggie Daniels | Assistant at Stevenson | Daniels is second all-time in blocks and games played at Hood College. |
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Franklin & |
Kirsten Richter | Brianna Spector (Interim) |
Assistant at F&M | Richter went 89-139 in nine seasons as the Diplomats' head coach. |
| Guilford | Stephanie Flamini | Sarah Mathews | Head coach at Bridgewater (Va.) | Mathews, who went 45-37 at Bridgewater, returns to North Carolina where she went to school (UNC Greensboro). |
| Haverford | Bobbi Morgan | Stephanie Carideo | Assistant at D1 Penn | Carideo went 27-22 in two seasons at Penn State-Abington, including a 22-6 conference winning season in 2015-16. |
| Hartwick | Katie Marcella | Sarah Lombard | Assistant at RPI | Lombard went 13-87 in four seasons as the head coach at Bard from 2010 to 2014. |
| Hilbert | Amy Senefelder | Nicole Bullock | Head coach at NAIA Presentation (S.D.) | Bullock played in D2 and coached in the NAIA before coming to D3. |
| Howard Payne | Yannick Denson | Rachel Janzen | Head coach at Allen Community College (Kan.) | Janzen played in D2 before spending six years as an assistant in D2 before being an assistant and head coach at Allen. |
| Keystone | Kristina Danella | Al Berger | Interim head coach at Pine Manor (2019-20) | Berger went 9-17 in one season as the head coach at Salem State. |
| Kenyon | Morgan Korinek (Interim) | Grace Elliott |
Head coach at Rosemont (2019-21) |
Elliott graduated from Ramapo (2016) where she also spent a season as an assistant coach. She also spent a year at Amherst as an assistant. |
| Knox | Emily Cline | Kira Mowen | Assistant at D1 Monmouth (N.J.) | Mowen played and coached at several D1 programs, but this is her first time in Division III. |
| Lasell | Todd Montana | Kelley Sundberg |
Assistant at D2 Seton |
Sundberg played and coached at the D2 level. |
| Lebanon Valley | Amy Sokaitis | Diane Decker | Staff at Villanova | Decker was the head coach at D2 East Stroudsburg (Pa.) for five seasons. |
| Lesley | Jake Mattleman | Madison Flowers | Assistant at Eastern Nazarene | Lesley converted this position to a full-time job and then hired Flowers who spent 10 years at ENC. |
| Lewis & Clark | Kristina Williams | Ann Dorris | Assistant at William Smith | Dorris also coached at her alma mater Lynchburg. |
| Lynchburg | Katie Crump (Interim) | Allison Nichols | Assistant at Roanoke | Nichols replaces Katie Crump who won ODAC Coach of the Year last season. |
| Maine-Farmington | Jamie Beaudoin | Nate Carson (Interim) | Men's assistant at UMF | Beaudoin resigned to take the Interim AD job at Maine-Farmington and apply for it on a permanent basis. |
| Mary Baldwin | Ross James | Meghan Austin | Head coach at Virginia high school | Austin was the head coach at NAIA Montreat College for four seasons. |
| Marymount | Ashlee Rogers | Margaret White | Head coach at Ursinus | White grew up around Marymount because her mother was the school's Director of Student Health. |
| Mass-Boston | Kristina Baugh | Heather Jacobs | Head coach at Wagner (D1) | Jacobs played at Franklin Pierce (DII) and started her coaching career in DIII (assistant at Norwich, head coach at Daniel Webster). |
| Mass. College | Loren Stock | David Bostick | Head coach at Becker | Bostick was the NECC Coach of the Year twice at Becker which closed this year. |
| McMurry | Brittany Densman-Roes | Drew Long (Interim) |
Administrator at D1 Abilene Christian | Long was an men's basketball assistant to Bill Fenlon at Southwestern in 2006-07. |
| Medgar Evers | Ben Newberg | Rodney Carr | Head coach at New York high school | Carr won championships as head coach for the Borough of Manhattan Community College and Hostos Community College. |
| Meredith | LaQuanda Barksdale Quick | Megan Rahn (Interim) | Assistant at Meredith | Rahn is the Avenging Angels' all-time leading rebounder and second all-time leading scorer. |
| MIT | Sonia Raman | Lucia Robinson-Griggs | Head coach at Vassar | Robinson-Griggs was an assistant at MIT for eight seasons before moving to Vassar. |
| Monmouth | Kyle Wilson | Megan Jones | Assistant at Luther | Jones played four years at Loras and coached three at Luther. |
| Mount Mary | Jaclyn Welch | Joshua Steffen | Head coach at NAIA Stephens | Steffen went 52-100 in six seasons as the head coach at Concordia Chicago. |
| Nichols | MaryLynn Skarzenski | Dan Nagle | High school coach in Massachusetts | Nagle went 27-50 in three seasons as the head coach at Fitchburg State. |
| Olivet | Brittany Zandstra | Peter Sabiiti | Assistant at NAIA Aquinas |
Sabiiti becomes Olivet's fourth women's basketball head coach since 2015. |
| Plattsburgh State | Cheryl Cole | Ben Sarraf | Assistant at Plattsburgh State |
Sarraf was on the Cardinals' staff the last eight seasons under Cole who took an administrative position. |
| Regis | Angela Santa Fe | Samantha Crough | Assistant at Carnegie Mellon | Prior to her four years at CMU, Crough was an assistant on the staffs at Williams and Emerson. |
| Rosemont | Grace Elliott | Damien Price | Assistant at Penn St.-Abington | Price was previously an assistant at Division II schools Georgian Court (N.J.) and Chestnut Hill (Pa.). |
| Schreiner | Samantha Davidson | Stacy Stephens | Head coach at NAIA Our Lady of the Lake | Stephens was a stand-out player at Texas-Austin where she was the Longhorns' 2nd all-time rebounder. |
| St. Mary's (Md.) | Matt Howerton (Interim) | Brittney Kenney | Assistant at WPI | Kenney played at Union and was an assistant at Trinity (Conn.). |
| St. Scholastica | Stacy Deadrick | Jason Schmitz | Head coach at Centenary (La.) | Schmitz went 11-49 in three seasons at Centenary. |
| SUNY-Old Westbury |
Mike Krasnoff | Position open | ||
| Swarthmore | Candice Signor-Brown | Dawn Grant (Interim) |
Head coach at Delaware County (Pa.) Community College | Please see story |
| Union | Mary Ellen Burt | Katie Marcella | Head coach at Hartwick | Marcella replaces Burt who won 344 games in 25 seasons at Union. |
| Ursinus | Margaret White | Bobbi Morgan | Head coach at Haverford | Morgan comes to Ursinus after winning 195 games in 12 seasons at Centennial rival Haverford. |
| University of the Ozarks | Kourtni Williams | Shauna Watson | Head coach at Earlham | Watson went 24-60 in four seasons at Earlham. |
| Texas Lutheran | Mel Dixon | Troy Patterson (Interim) | Assistant at Texas Lutheran | Dixon went 127-96 in nine seasons as the Bulldogs' head coach. |
| Vassar | Lucia Robinson-Griggs | Anthony Mason | Assistant at Pepperdine | Mason was part of Kristen Dowling's staff at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps before she moved to Pepperdine. |
| Wesleyan (Ga.) | Kyle Herring | William Sperow II | ||
| Wilmington | Jerry Scheve | Janel Blankespoor | Interim for past year | The Otterbein grad guided Quakers to a 7-7 mark during COVID-19 season. She was previously the acting HC at Earlham for three seasons. |
| Wilson | Matt Allen | Shane Rottier | Assistant at Elizabethtown |
Rottier will try to develop a Phoenix program that has had just one winning season since 2006-07. |
| Wittenberg | Bryan Neal | Tamika Williams-Jeter | Assistant at Ohio State | Williams-Jeter was a Top-10 pick in the WNBA after graduating from UConn. |
| Wooster | Lisa Panepento | Mary Kate Tierney | Assistant at Case Western | Tierney was an All-Region honoree at Ithaca in her senior season. |
| York (N.Y.) | Anastasia Bitis | Kimani Jackson | Assistant at Division II St. Thomas Aquinas | Jackson played four years at Division II Molloy College. |